Also known as Schumann Quarry

Where: Baden-Württemberg, Germany (49.1° N, 9.9° E: paleocoordinates 16.3° N, 17.5° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Upper Lettenkeuper Member (Erfurt Formation), Longobardian (242.0 - 235.0 Ma)

• Collected from the "Untere Graue Mergel" of the Upper Lettenkeuper, now formally the Erfurt Formation of the Lower Keuper (see Deutsche Stratigraphische Kommission 2005: Cour. Forsch.-Inst. Senckenberg 253:1-296). This locality is Longobardian (late Ladinian) in age.

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•Locality consists of "a 1.5-m thick sequence of dark grey mudstones wedged

•in between two hard carbonate layers, each 0.8–1.2-m thick. The fossiliferous bed is located near the top of the mudstone sequence, formed by a 50–150mm-thick grey, decalcified clay"

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• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: estuary or bay; gray claystone

Size class: macrofossils

Collected in 1980s-present; reposited in the SMNS

Collection methods: quarrying, chemical,

Primary reference: F. Witzmann, R. R. Schoch, and M. W. Maisch. 2008. A relict basal tetrapod from Germany: first evidence of a Triassic chroniosuchian outside Russia. Naturwissenschaften 95:67-72 [R. Butler/R. Butler]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 101875: authorized by Richard Butler, entered by Richard Butler on 04.01.2011, edited by Mark Uhen, Terri Cleary, Emma Dunne and Bethany Allen

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